Sexism will be a problem for longer than racism will
By
Vynce
on May 08, 2008
(Or at least, racism within the human race. Specïsm may be a problem for longer, if you postulate the eventual human awareness of another intelligent species, but that's another matter altogether.)
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Neither sexism or racism will ever die, even if the vast majority of people despise those two ideas.
I'm not sure. I think that racism can take more extreme forms in the sense that it is easy to imagine a well-functioning society of a single race, whereas a society of one gender would not be able to survive long-term (at least, not without some form of technological intervention to facilitate reproduction).
I don't know.
I can see how it might well work out that way, but it's hard to know.
I don't believe that complete elimination of racism or sexism is necessary for it to stop being a problem in the sense of the idiom meant by the claim.
Elihu: yes, and I suspect that we will eventually have, basically or at least effectively, one race.